UCL demographer’s work debunking ‘Blue Zone’ regions of exceptional lifespans wins Ig Nobel prize

• Dr Newman received the award for research that revealed fundamental flaws in extreme old-age demographic research, by demonstrating that data patterns are likely to be dominated by errors and finding that supercentenarian and remarkable age records exhibit patterns indicative of clerical errors and pension fraud (paper pre-print, not yet peer-reviewed). 

Chores

• Recycling run – done!
• Goodwill run – done!
• 11:30 Lunch with Greg – done!
• Trim grass – done

SBIRs

• 2:00 Meeting – done

Grants

• Continue reading proposal 10. Everything is due Oct 9. About 3/4 through